NOVELTY IN DRESS

Southland Times, Issue 18810, 1 May 1920, Page 8

NOVELTY IN DRESS

WONDERFUL ISLINGTON EXHIBITION

VISITORS GASP AT GOWNS.

(Sydney Sun Cable I. LONDON, Monday Night. Women's novelties at the Islington Exhibition include v.'hite kid trimming;; to black gowns instead of braid ; waistcoats made entirely of kid, which arc hand-painted or embroidered in Oriental colours ; and embroidered veils, described as very coquettish, the bottoms of which resemble an old-fashioned stock, and which are fastened with a ribbon bow, and released from above when the wearer is drinking tea. The exhibition justifies the promise of bizarre specialities. Mannequins of all types, sizes, and ages are employed to show off the dresses. A startling bareback gown, held up by strings of diamonds, ending in a long fishtrain, made the visitors gasp. An earlier cable stated that 300 firms would exhibit at the show', which was intended as an answer to the reproach that British fabrics were deficient in variety. Two hundred mannequins would parade, showing the latest London, Bradford, and Manchester specialities. Fifty thousand buyers were expected.